Owned by independent power producer KEILCO, the 1,200MW power plant went into operation in 2002 and uses natural gas from the offshore Malampaya field.
ABB supplied the original control system in the early 2000s and the recent enhancement will upgrade the operator stations and servers and increase the speed of the network, as well as provide loop segmentation to enable partial shutdown of the plant in planned or emergency situations.
ABB claims that system evolution is fundamental to its control system philosophy and it enables customers to evolve their control systems as needs grow or change, while protecting major system investments like process graphics, control applications and history data.
